• What are your characters’ motivations?
• Do your characters’ actions arise from their needs?
• Downgrade your minor characters
Not all characters in your story are created equal. Some are of the utmost importance while some are fairly insignificant.
• Don’t underserve a character in story
• Avoid temptation to create author surrogate
• Don’t let characters chew the furniture
• Give your characters room to breathe
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